I guess instead of saying that, I meant to say that the prices will always be under the influence of supply and demand. Plus, theres no way to actually regulate the selling prices so people will drop their prices in an effort to gain a competitive edge upon their fellow sellers. There are many flaws in lukey's plan, and I don't think that he actually made this post in any amount of seriousness, so lets not blow it all out of proportion.

This is the same reason that forging prices have gone down the tubes. NUB suppliers seem to value their time less, and so have no interest in trying to get more money, they just get money quickly through their low prices. It's sad, really, but as Bart said, not much we can do about it.

Cartels seldom actually accomplish their goal of restricting supply to the point of high profits. Even OPEC, perhaps the most well known cartel, seldom sees a year go by where most of their members actually stick to their assigned quotas.

I wonder if all the gas companies did this. They all got together and said, "Lets all charge the same high price and make lots of money." The results are the same as Leon said before :
A. Force people to spend more
B. Lose a lot of those people to bike riding and car pools.

exacally, they could easily do this, well, i'm not a buisness man so I don't know if they have contracts or whatnot, haha.

And with that first post, I was really bored and just wanted to start something to see what people would say, I never research or.... think about what i'm going to post, you all should know that by now :D

bartjan@zarniwoop:~$ dict oligopoly
1 definition found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
oligopoly
n : (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a
commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers
and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

It is all supply and demand even though there are many who refuse to believe this.

Right now, just look at whom the buyers are. A few months ago the main ones were me, DAWG, Freed and Jayuu.

I have stopped buying cb2 for a while, DAWG has a nice store of cb2, Freed has more cb2 then anyone but Central Bank, and Jayuu has his items more than enough upgraded.
With the 4 major USD spenders out of the loop, who is buying all the cb2 that is for sale?

For all those who want to make a cartel, (it has been tried before and each time) someone, somewhere with a NUB character (multi or not) sells for the market price which now is lower than 12 usd per million.

If everyone would sell for 15 usd per million, right now not much Cb2 would be sold.

Here we go again.
Good Luck trying to raise it, as Ranger stated, most of us that frequently buy are all happy with the amount we have or have other means of making it, and would only buy it if the price is right for us. None of the buyers have been trying to dictate the market by not buying. The supply is just heavily out weighing demand. That is why no one has been selling much CB2 lately and the price has been dropping to 10:1. At least, that is how much I pay for it nowadays, since I really don't need any cb2.

As Mikel says, if you want to corner the cb2 market, then buy all the cb2 that sells for less than 15 usd and then resell it for 15 usd or more.

To use a quote that was used before (modified for this post):

"Beyond that I have no comment except to say that it's pointless to try to explain supply and demand yet again. It is as simple as black and white, and trying to pretend otherwise just makes you a [G_Beee Edit]"